Posts for data centre

Switch to more nuclear energy to power ever hungry AI

The Biden administration wants to preempt price hikes as government agencies compete with energy-hungry data centers and made a 10-year, $840 million nuclear energy contract is for 10 million megawatt-hours of electricity.

Carbon Emissions from AI and Crypto are surging

What do crypto assets and artificial intelligence have in common? Both are power-hungry. New statistics from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) show a steep increase of global electricity use for crypto mining and AI.